TABLE OF CONTENTS

TABLE OF CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION

XLISP COMMAND LOOP

BREAK COMMAND LOOP

DATA TYPES

THE EVALUATOR

HOOK FUNCTIONS

LEXICAL CONVENTIONS

8 BIT ASCII CHARACTERS

READTABLES

SYMBOL CASE CONTROL

PACKAGES

LAMBDA LISTS

OBJECTS

THE 'Object' CLASS

THE 'Class' CLASS

INSTANCE VARIABLES OF CLASS 'CLASS':

SYMBOLS

EVALUATION FUNCTIONS

MULTIPLE VALUE FUNCTIONS

SYMBOL FUNCTIONS

PACKAGE FUNCTIONS

PROPERTY LIST FUNCTIONS

HASH TABLE FUNCTIONS

ARRAY FUNCTIONS

SEQUENCE FUNCTIONS

LIST FUNCTIONS

DESTRUCTIVE LIST FUNCTIONS

ARITHMETIC FUNCTIONS

BITWISE LOGICAL FUNCTIONS

STRING FUNCTIONS

CHARACTER FUNCTIONS

STRUCTURE FUNCTIONS

OBJECT FUNCTIONS

PREDICATE FUNCTIONS

CONTROL CONSTRUCTS

LOOPING CONSTRUCTS

THE PROGRAM FEATURE

INPUT/OUTPUT FUNCTIONS

THE FORMAT FUNCTION

FILE I/O FUNCTIONS

STRING STREAM FUNCTIONS

DEBUGGING AND ERROR HANDLING FUNCTIONS

SYSTEM FUNCTIONS

ADDITIONAL FUNCTIONS AND UTILITIES

STEP.LSP

PP.LSP

INSPECT.LSP

BUG FIXES AND EXTENSIONS

Bug Fixes

User Interface Changes

New/Changed Data Types

New Variables and Constants

New functions

Changed functions

New messages for class Object

New messages for class Class

EXAMPLES: FILE I/O FUNCTIONS

Input from a File

Output to a File

A Slightly More Complicated File Example

INDEX